ANDREWS, LANCELOT, an eminent English prelate, was b. in London in 1555, and educated successively at the Coopers' Free School, Ratcliffe, Merchant Taylors' School, and Pembroke Hall, Cambridge. of which college, after having greatly distinguished himself by his industry and acquirements, he was in 1576 elected a fellow. On taking orders, he accompanied the earl of Huntingdon to the north of England. His talents attracted the notice of Walsingham, queen Llizabeth's secretary of state, who appointed him successively to the parsonage of Alton. and the vicarage of St. Giles, Cripplegate. In 15S9 he was appointed a prebendary and canon residentiary of St. Paul's, a preben dary of the collegiate church of Southwell, and master of Pembroke Hall. The queen next testified her esteem for his gifts and piety by appointing him one of her chaplains in ordinary, and a prebendary and dean of Westminster. He rose still higher in favor with king James, who was well qualified to appreciate his extensive learning and pecu liar style of oratory. He attended the Hampton Court conference, as one of the ecclesi astical commissioners, and took part in the translation of the Bible. The portion on which he was engaged was the first twelve books of the Old Testament. In 1605 lie was consecrated bishop of Chichester. In 1609 he was translated to the see of Ely, and appointed one of his majesty's privy-councilors, both for England and Scotland. To
the latter country he accompanied the king in 1617, as one of the royal instruments for persuading the Scotch of the superiority of episcopacy over presbytery. In the following year he was translated to Winchester, where he d. on the 27th Mar., 1625. Bishop A. was, with the exception of Usher, the most learned English theologian of his time. As a preacher, lie was regarded by his contemporaries as unrivaled; but the excellent quali ties of his discourses are apt to suffer much depreciation in modern judgment from the extremely artificial and frigid character of the style. His principal works published during his life were two treatises in reply to cardinal Bellarniin, in defense of the right of princes over ecclesiastical assemblies. His other works consist of sermons, lectures, and manuals of devotion. Bishop A. was the most eminent of that Anglican school in the 17th c. of which the 19th has seen a faint revival under the name of Puseyism. Its distinctive peculiarities were high views of ecclesiastical authority, and of the efficacy of sacraments, ceremonies, and apostolic succession, and extreme opposition to Puritanism. In his private life, A. was singularly pious, meek, and charitable.